OS42B:
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, Climate Variability, and Change II

Session ID#: 4658

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3009 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Jerry F McManus, Columbia U. / LDEO, Palisades, United States and Eleanor Frajka-Williams, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom
Primary Convener:  Alexey V Fedorov, Yale University, New Haven, United States
Co-conveners:  LuAnne Thompson, University of Washington, Oceanography, Seattle, United States, Jerry F McManus, Columbia U. / LDEO, Palisades, United States and Eleanor Frajka-Williams, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Eleanor Frajka-Williams, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
  • PP - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4263 Ocean predictability and prediction [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4532 General circulation [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4962 Thermohaline [PALEOCEANOGRAPHY]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

OS42B-01
Assessing AMOC over the Last 40,000 Years from Seawater Density Gradients (Invited) (4454)
Jean Lynch-Stieglitz, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States
OS42B-02
Reconstructing Modes of the Amoc Back to the Penultimate Glacial Maximum (10060)
Joerg Albert Lippold1, Evelyn Böhm2, Marcus Gutjahr3, Martin Frank3, Patrick Blaser2, Benny Antz2, Jens Fohlmeister4, Norbert Frank5, Morten Bugge Andersen6 and Michael Deininger2, (1)University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, (2)University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, (3)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (4)University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Potsdam, Germany, (5)University of Heidelberg, Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg, Germany, (6)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
OS42B-03
North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and Abrupt Climate Change through the Last Glaciation (27918)
Gene Henry III, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Jerry F McManus, Columbia U. / LDEO, Palisades, United States, William B Curry, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, St.George's, GE, Bermuda, Lloyd D Keigwin, WHOI, Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole, United States and Liviu Giosan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, MA, United States
OS42B-04
Carbon Cycle Variability Due to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (30310)
Galen A McKinley and Melissa Breeden, University of Wisconsin Madison, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, WI, United States
OS42B-05
Recurrence of Winter Convection in the Warming Labrador Sea and Associated Variability Downstream (16343)
Igor Yashayaev1, John W Loder1 and Miguel Angel Morales Maqueda2, (1)Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dartmouth, NS, Canada, (2)National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom
OS42B-06
Characteristics of the Sinking Branch of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation in a Global Ocean Model - the Impacts of Model Resolution (10986)
Elodie Burrillon1, Caroline A Katsman2, Sybren S Drijfhout1, Hendrik A Dijkstra3 and Michael A Spall4, (1)Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands, (2)Delft University of Technology, Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Delft, Netherlands, (3)Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, (4)WHOI, Woods Hole, United States
OS42B-07
The Role of the AMOC in Forecast Cooling of the Atlantic Subpolar Gyre and Its Associated Impacts (15682)
Leon Hermanson1, Rosemary Eade1, Niall Robinson1, Nick J Dunstone1, Martin Andrews1, Jeff R Knight2, Adam A Scaife1 and Doug M Smith3, (1)Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom, (2)Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, (3)Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom
OS42B-08
Revisiting the role of atmosphere-ocean coupling in North Atlantic variability and predictability (26592)
Laure Zanna, University of Oxford, Dept of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom
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